How to Create a Life of Purpose, Fulfillment, and Joy with Derek Sivers

”Goals should only be judged by their ability to change your actions in the present. If a goal doesn’t improve your present actions, it’s not a good goal.”

— Derek Sivers

Greetings, Superfriends, and welcome to this week’s show.
This week, we have a guest that a lot of you have requested – Mr. Derek Sivers. Like many of our guests, he has an extremely eclectic background – he started his career as a musician and circus clown, and in the process of selling his CD’s online, he somewhat accidentally founded CD Baby, the largest seller of independent music on the web, with over $100M in sales and 150,000 artists.

In 2008, he sold CD baby and began to focus on his new ventures – and that’s why we have him here on the Becoming SuperHuman Podcast. My guest is an expert in lifestyle design. He himself is based in New Zealand, Singapore, and Belgium, of all places. He shares my passion for self-improvement. He’s a frequent speaker at the TED conference, with over 10 million views of his talks, and he’s published a staggering 34 books since 2011, including the #1 Bestseller Anything You Want.

In this interview, my goal was to uncover the mentality of someone who has been not only successful in the classical sense, but also in the sense that means the most to me – he is a deeply happy, joyous person who has designed the type of life he wants to live.

We discuss a lot in this episode, from lifestyle design and entrepreneurship to the things that my guest most attributes to his success and the values that guide his life and decisions. Throughout the episode, you’ll gain a unique and fascinating insight into someone leading a very un-traditional and very extraordinary life, and he offers a ton of practical tips and suggestions for making real change in our own lives.

In this episode with Derek Sivers, we discuss:

Derek Sivers’s story of going from musician to entrepreneur, multimillionaire, and then bestselling author

How did Derek deal with the unexpected fame and fortune from CDBaby, and why did he sell it?

What did it feel like for Derek to feel that his life had peaked at 38 years old, and what did he do about it?

Why was Derek Sivers researching different ways to change his name and disappear off the grid ?

What two epiphanies changed Derek’s life forever and caused him to “man up?”

Derek’s journey to impact the lives of others, and how he got to speak at the TED conference 3 (!) times

Leadership, and the story behind Derek’s most successful TED Talk

What is the “new kind of entrepreneur” discussed in Derek’s book, and why has the book been so successful?

What does Derek feel is the secret to his success?

Derek’s experiences living abroad, and his thoughts on Singapore and it’s history

Jonathan

Jonathan Levi is a serial entrepreneur, published author, and lifehacker born and raised in Silicon Valley. Since 2014, Jonathan has been one of the top-performing instructors on online learning platform Udemy, and has snowballed this success into the launch of his rapidly growing information products company, SuperHuman Enterprises, which produces such products as the award-winning Becoming SuperHuman Podcast; the bestselling "Become a SuperLearner" print, digital, and audiobooks; and numerous other online courses through it’s own online training portal, SuperLearner Academy. Jonathan’s media products have been enjoyed by over 130,000 people in 200 countries. He is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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